Rochelle Feinstein is an artist who was born in the Bronx and grew up in Queens in NYC.
She has exhibited her works nationally and internationally, has written about art and artists. A collection of selected writings, Pls. Reply, was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2019. Feinstein’s four concurrent retrospectives (2016-2019) were presented, and respectively titled, at these venues: In Anticipation of Women’s History Month, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, CH, I Made A Terrible Mistake, Lenbachhaus Stadtische, Munich, DE, Make it Behave, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, DE, and Image of an Image, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NYC. Recent solo exhibitions include, Rainbow Room/The Year in Hate, Campoli Presti, London, UK (2019), Fredonia!, and Nina Johnson Gallery Miami, FL (2020).
Her works are represented in numerous public and private collections, and have been featured in numerous publications. She has been awarded fellowships and grants from Anonymous Was A Woman, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. She was a recipient of the 2017-2018 Rome Prize Jules Guerin Fellowship in Visual Arts, American Academy in Rome. In 2017, Rochelle became Emerita Professor of painting/printmaking, Yale School of Art. Yale University.
Her work has been covered in The New York Times, the Brooklyn Rail, Artforum, Time Out NY, the New Yorker, Artinfo and many others.